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Phillips: relocating site-specific public sculpture

Decision date · 22 August 2006

Context photograph: The John Joseph Moakley Courthouse, seat of the First Circuit in Boston.
Context photograph: The John Joseph Moakley Courthouse, seat of the First Circuit in Boston. ajay_suresh · CC BY 4.0 · Resized

The dispute

A sculptor objected to changes to a Boston park where his site-specific work was installed.

The decision

The appeals court held that the federal Visual Artists Rights Act did not protect the site-specific work as such.

Source

First Circuit · 459 F.3d 128

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